8th Annual Health Services Research Symposium Presentations
In honor of the leadership, inspiration and scholarship of Martin F. Shapiro, MD, PhD
Monday, February 23, 2026
GIM-HSR Poster Presentations
| 1 | Lauren E. Wisk, PhD | Impact of a Student-Tailored Version of the Diabetes Prevention Program on Lifestyle: Results from a Pilot Randomized Trial among Undergraduates |
| 2 | Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, PhD | UCLA DOMStat Data Core |
| 3 | Utibe Essien, MD, MPH & Jasmyn Tang, MPH | Disparities in Anti-Dementia Drug Use in ADRD by Specialist Type |
| 4 | Lucinda Leung, MD, MPH, PhD and Jasmeen Santos, MPH | Assessing the Impact of State Telehealth Policy Expansion on 988 Suicide & Crisis Calls Nationally |
| 5 | Lucinda Leung, MD, MPH, PhD and Valerie Nguyen, MPH | Perspectives of State Health Leaders on Medicaid Telemental Health Policy Implementation |
| 6 | Melissa Wei, MD, MPH | Developing and validating novel EHR-based multimorbidity-weighted index across comorbidity measures |
| 7 | Adam Konscol, MPA | CRYSTAL CLEAR: Characterizing Methamphetamine Markets in Los Angeles |
| 8 | Chelsea Shover, PhD and Caitlin Molina | Emergence of Local Anesthetics in the Los Angeles Illicit Fentanyl Supply |
| 9 | Arpan Patel, MD, PhD | Barriers and Facilitators to Advance Care Planning among Latino Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis at Liver Transplant Centers |
| 10 | Jachael Gardner, MPH | Integrated Community Engagement, mHealth and Data Science to Enhance Clinical Trial Diversity and Cardiometabolic Health (iDIVERSE) |
| 11 | Christian Cabunag, MPP | National Institutes of Health AIM-AHEAD - West Hub |
| 12 | Eric Apaydin, PhD | Rural and urban differences in the patient-related costs of primary care provider turnover: A national study of the Veteran Health Administration |
| 13 | Gloria Moon, MSW, MPH | Longitudinal support services to bridge workforce gaps in pre-hospital care fields for participants in the Turner-UCLA Allied Health Internship Program |
| 14 | Gloria Moon, MSW, MPH | A community partnered approach to enhance public understanding and mitigate health impacts from the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires |
| 15 | Neil Wenger, MD, MPH | Importance of Timing of an Advance Care Planning Intervention |
| 16 | Daniel Gonzalez, MD | Associations Between Insurance Coverage Continuity and Utilization using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey |
| 17 | Utpal Sandesara, MD, PhD | Hepatology and The Home: A Novel Home-Based Ethnographic Approach to Informal Caregiver For End-Stage Liver Disease in A U.S. Urban Safety Net Setting |
| 18 | The National Clinician Scholars Program Fellows | The National Clinician Scholars Program |
| 19 | O. Kenrik Duru, MD | A Pragmatic Nationwide RCT of Coordinated Medical, Behavioral, and Social Services to Improve Care and Utilization among High-Need, High-Cost Insured Patients with Diabetes – Final Analyses for Aims 1, 2 & 3 |
| 20 | Anusha Fatehpuria, BS | Predictors of contact and engagement in a national health plan’s care coordination intervention for high-need, high-cost patients |
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